Brewsvegas is a grass roots, community minded celebration of Brisbane’s burgeoning craft beer culture. Here’s the lowdown on which events Black Hops will be hosting or involved with during Brewsvegas 2017, from 10 – 19 March.

Those of us who love quality beer can often be limited for choice when it comes to drinking our favourites when we’re out. So how can you, as a beer loving consumer, influence what type of beer gets served at your local? Well one way is by not asking for ‘craft beer’ at all!

Operation Brewery is back! If you missed last season, we focused on how we were going about building our brewery.This season, “Road to the AIBA’s”, will document our journey to improve the beer we make and work towards the big night for beer in Australia, the AIBA’s in May. In this episode we chat with Hendo about how the AIBA’s run.

Operation Brewery is back! If you missed last season, we focused on how we were going about building our brewery. It’s been 7 months since then and things are a bit different.
This season, Road to the AIBA’s will document our journey to improve the beer we make and work towards the big night for beer in Australia, the AIBA’s in May.

On episode 1 we catch up with good mate and beer legend Steve (Hendo) Henderson about what we have planned.

More often than not, the answer to drinking good beer, is drinking fresh beer. So in this blog post we discuss the 4 main factors that can cause good beer to go bad. We also give you a few pointers on what you can do to make sure the beer you buy tastes like it’s meant to.

In November 2016 we had an email come through asking for the recipe for our Eggnog Stout, as the fella was keen to home brew it for some family Xmas drinking. It got us thinking, we had on our hands 2 very traditional Xmas beers. Assault Trifle & Eggnog Stout. In a cunning attempt to […]

Craft beer lingo can be a bit of a mystery for those not part of the scene. So Black Hops head brewer Govs has put together a top ten list of craft beer jargon, to help you know your dank from your lacing.

We all know, every man’s dream is to have cold fresh beer on tap in the comfort of his castle. Well some of us dream and some of us do. That’s what we love about Eddie’s dad Martin, he’s a doer. In this post, he takes us through his extremely boss system for drinking black hops beer on tap at home.